Planned Activities

Shady Acres Cottage & RV Resort

Shady Acres Cottage & RV Resort has served as a beloved Rice Lake family destination for over 30 years from its prime position along the northern shore of one of the Kawarthas' most scenic and fish-rich lakes. With more than 300 full-service campsites including waterfront locations, a heated pool, cottage rentals, and full marina services for boating guests, Shady Acres delivers the complete Kawarthas cottage country experience in a campground setting accessible to the broadest range of Ontario outdoor enthusiasts. On-site recreation covers an impressive range: horseshoe pits with regular Sunday tournaments, shuffleboard courts, basketball, a children's playground, and a heated pool provide the daily activity framework, while dances on long weekends, bingo, a kids' fishing tournament in June, Halloween Night in July, annual fireworks, a golf tournament in August, Monte Carlo night, and a September corn roast fill the social calendar with the community events that keep shady acres' core of returning campers planning their next visit before the current one ends. A general store, laundry, security gates, and clean washrooms and showers handle the practical side of a longer stay. Boat, motor, and dock rentals, a boat launch, and complimentary fish freezing ensure Rice Lake anglers are fully equipped. All RV sites feature 30-amp service, water, and sewer. Pets are welcome. Rice Lake itself is the resort's defining natural feature — a large, shallow, island-dotted lake that is one of the premier walleye and muskie fisheries in Ontario's Kawartha Lakes region. The lake's natural productivity and its position on the Trent-Severn Waterway make it a destination for anglers and boaters who use shady acres keene as a home base for extended water-based exploration. Lang Pioneer Village Museum, a short drive from the resort, preserves 19th-century Ontario rural life in an open-air village setting with costumed interpreters, historic buildings, and operating traditional trades. Hopes Mill Conservation Area and the Warsaw Caves provide geological and natural history interest close to camp. Peterborough, the Kawartha Lakes' largest urban center, offers dining, shopping, and the Canadian Canoe Museum — one of the country's most unique heritage institutions celebrating the canoe's central role in Canadian identity — within 30 minutes of Shady Acres. Shady Acres Cottage & RV Resort is open through the Ontario camping season, with peak demand falling June through August when Rice Lake's warm summer temperatures and the resort's social calendar are simultaneously in full swing. Seasonal sites are held by returning families year after year, so book overnight and weekly stays early — shady acres resort's reputation in the Kawarthas has created a loyal clientele that ensures summer availability is genuinely competitive.

Bobcaygeon Shores Cottage Resort

2 Park Models

Bobcaygeon Shores Cottage Resort in Kawartha Lakes, ON, offers 2 park models alongside cottage accommodation. This is a cottage resort rather than a serviced RV park — the published record shows no RV sites or hookups, so contact them directly if you're traveling in a rig. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, on-site dining, propane exchange, and a recreation center serve guests. Pets are welcome. The waterfront carries the property: boat docks, a boat ramp, a beach, sport courts, and a playground, with fishing and boating on Pigeon Lake. Bobcaygeon sits in Ontario's Kawartha Lakes region, where the Trent-Severn Waterway's 240-mile navigable corridor between Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay passes through a chain of interconnected lakes and lock stations. Lock 32 is in the village itself. Rates for the park models and cottages are on the booking page. The Ontario summer season is short and the Kawarthas fill — reserve well ahead, and call about RV accommodation before you tow.

from $145/night

Cedar Valley Cottage Resort

On the scenic Scugog River in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario—in the rolling agricultural and cottage-country landscape east of Lindsay where the Trent-Severn Waterway's interconnected lakes, rivers, and locks create one of the most celebrated inland boating corridors in eastern Canada—Cedar Valley Cottage Resort, a Summerhill Resorts property, offers two and three-bedroom seasonal cottages with full kitchens and comfortable furnishings alongside premium waterfront docks, a multi-sports court with road hockey, pickleball, tennis, and basketball, direct fishing and boating access from the Scugog River, and the immediate proximity to the Kawartha Lakes region's trails, provincial parks, and the historic town of Lindsay that makes this cottage-country resort the complete base camp for a Kawartha summer season from May through October. The river is at your dock. Lindsay is minutes away. Cedar Valley's two and three-bedroom cottages provide the family-scale accommodation that the Kawartha Lakes seasonal market demands—full kitchens for self-catering the week, comfortable furnishings for the evening post-lake gathering, and the private cottage character that distinguishes a cottage-country stay from a standard campground experience. The premium Scugog River docks allow guests with their own boats to arrive by water or launch directly onto the river for the fishing, the leisurely river exploration, and the Trent-Severn Waterway lock system navigation that makes the Kawartha waterway network one of Ontario's great boating destinations. The multi-sports court's road hockey, pickleball, tennis, and basketball keep the active family and the competitive adults equally occupied during the dry-weather hours between lake sessions. The Kawartha Lakes region—City of Kawartha Lakes encompasses the former Victoria County's interconnected municipalities, conservation areas, and provincial parks in a landscape shaped by Precambrian Shield bedrock, glacial lakes, and the rivers that connect them—provides the fishing, boating, and nature experience that the Ontario cottage tradition has organized itself around since the 19th century. The Scugog River connects the resort directly to the Trent-Severn Waterway, the 386-kilometer engineered waterway that links Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay at Port Severn through 44 locks and 6 lakes in the most complete inland boating route in Ontario. Lindsay, minutes from the resort, provides the essential Kawartha Lakes town infrastructure—the farmers market, the historic downtown shopping, the medical and grocery services, and the community events calendar that the City of Kawartha Lakes anchors in its largest urban center. The Petroglyphs Provincial Park, 45 miles north near Woodview, protects the largest concentration of Indigenous petroglyphs in Canada—the 900-plus carved figures in the crystalline limestone outcropping are among the most significant sacred sites in Ontario's First Nations heritage. Fenelon Falls, Bobcaygeon, and the other Kawartha Lakes waterfront communities provide the day-trip variety that the cottage-country touring circuit builds around locks, ice cream shops, and antique stores along the Trent-Severn. Cedar Valley Cottage Resort operates seasonally from May 1 through October 31 in the Kawartha Lakes' temperate Ontario summer climate, with June through Labour Day the peak cottage season and the September and October shoulder weeks offering the region's most comfortable temperatures, the autumn walleye and bass fishing peak, and the hardwood forest's fall color display that the Kawartha uplands produce in the October weeks before closing. Reserve your cottage at Cedar Valley and let the Scugog River, the Trent-Severn Waterway, and the Kawartha Lakes' complete cottage-country experience make Ontario's inland lake district the summer destination the resort's river location promises.

from $167/night

Scugog Landing Cottage & RV Resort

Port Perry, Ontario, is one of the best-preserved Victorian main streets in Durham Region, an hour northeast of Toronto at the head of Lake Scugog in the southern edge of cottage country. Scugog Landing Cottage & RV Resort occupies 120 acres of rolling Ontario landscape incorporated into the Trent-Severn Waterway just ten minutes from Port Perry's waterfront, combining genuine cottage country character with resort infrastructure that accommodates both RV travelers and guests arriving without their own accommodation. The resort offers a range of RV sites with full services alongside cottage and cabin rental options that give guests the Lake Scugog experience without requiring property ownership on the water. The grounds are expansive and thoughtfully laid out, with the lake providing direct waterfront access for boating, fishing, and paddling from the resort's own shoreline. At 120 acres, the scale ensures that even fully booked summer weekends feel uncrowded and spacious — a quality that resorts on smaller properties simply cannot replicate. Pets are welcome throughout. Lake Scugog and the Trent-Severn Waterway form the twin defining features of the surrounding landscape: flat, mirror-calm water, marshland edges alive with waterfowl, and the measured pace of a historic canal system that has been drawing Ontario cottagers for generations. The Trent-Severn is one of Canada's most beloved recreational waterways, stretching 386 kilometers through Ontario's lake country and providing a boating route of genuine historical and natural significance. Lock 26 operates nearby, and watching cruisers and sailboats work through the lock mechanism is a quintessentially Canadian cottage-country experience that visitors from outside Ontario rarely anticipate and consistently remember. Great blue herons, Canada geese, and various duck species populate the Lake Scugog shoreline through the warm-weather months, giving the waterfront an animated natural quality that persists from dawn through evening. The Kawartha Lakes region surrounding Port Perry combines agricultural countryside with lakeside scenery in a way that feels distinctly and authentically Canadian. Port Perry's Victorian downtown rewards a morning of exploration: boutiques, galleries, bookstores, cafés, and antique shops line Queen Street toward the Lake Scugog waterfront, and the Boathouse Grill is a local institution for lakeside dining worth reserving. The Great Blue Heron Casino in Port Perry offers evening entertainment just minutes from camp. The summer months bring the Highland Games, Dragon Boat Races, and StreetFest to the Port Perry community, layering festival energy on top of the already-rich outdoor and culinary calendar. Scugog Landing operates through the Ontario camping season, with summer bookings — especially for waterfront cottages and preferred RV sites — filling months in advance given the resort's proximity to the Toronto metropolitan area. Friday-through-Sunday availability is always limited during peak summer months; longer stays of a week or more offer the best chance at securing preferred positions on the water. The resort's established community of returning guests gives Scugog Landing a warm, familiar character that first-time visitors tend to notice within the first day of settling in.

from $41/night

Duck Lake RV Resort

9 RV Sites, 7 Cottages

Duck Lake RV Resort in Kirkfield, ON, offers 9 RV sites and 7 cottages, with 30-amp service and room for rigs up to 45 feet. Sites carry water and electric with a fire pit and picnic table — there's no sewer at the site, so plan accordingly. Note the electrical: this is a 30-amp resort throughout, so a rig wired for heavier service will need an adapter and some load management. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, propane exchange, on-site dining, and recycling cover the essentials. The resort cottages are park models built to CSA standards rather than traditional cabins. Pets are welcome, and there's a playground. For nine sites the recreation is resort-scale: an outdoor pool, a water park, a beach, a boat ramp, a ball field, sport courts, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, and a pavilion, with swimming, boating, paddling, paddle boarding, and fishing on the lake. Kirkfield sits in Ontario's Kawartha Lakes region, on a spring-fed lake shaped like a duck, across more than 340 acres of Canadian lake country. Rates for sites and cottages are on the booking page. Nine RV sites and a short Ontario season means summer books early.

from $43/night

Sandbanks River Country Campground

70 RV Sites, 6 Cabins, 8 Tent Sites, 3 Cottages

Sandbanks River Country Campground in Prince Edward County, Ontario, offers 70 full-hookup RV sites, nine cabin and cottage units, and eight tent sites on the Outlet River, with 30 and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 48 feet behind a gated entrance. A dedicated 30-amp waterfront category joins 30 and 50-amp full-hookup tiers, with boat docks, kayak rentals, and a beach. Seventy back-in sites run in 30-amp full hookup, 30-amp full hookup waterfront, and 50-amp full hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 48 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Accessible sites are available, and the waterfront category is worth requesting early. Nine cabins and cottages and eight tent sites round out the lodging. A laundry, propane exchange, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Boat docks, boat rentals, and kayak rentals open the river for boating, canoeing, kayaking, paddle boarding, and fishing, with a beach on the property. A recreation center, sports courts, volleyball, horseshoes, a playground, and picnicking fill the grounds. Pets are welcome. The Outlet River connects to East Lake here, and Sandbanks Provincial Park's internationally recognized freshwater sand dunes and barrier beach are close by. Prince Edward County has become one of Ontario's most celebrated wine and culinary destinations over the past two decades, with tasting rooms and farm restaurants throughout. Summer is decisively the season in Ontario, with the harvest drawing a strong September and October. Reserve well ahead for July and August.

from $48/night

Woodland Park

3 RV Sites, 10 Tent Sites

Woodland Park in Sauble Beach, Ontario, offers three full-hookup RV sites and 10 tent sites a short walk from Lake Huron, with 30-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet behind a gated entrance. Back-in and pull-through categories join a beach, boat ramp, boat docks, recreation center, and on-site dining. Three sites run in back-in and pull-through categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30-amp, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. One thing to check: service is 30-amp, so a rig wired for heavier draw will need an adapter and some load management. Sixty feet accommodates a long coach with a tow. Ten tent sites and cabins round out the lodging. A general store, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. A beach, boat ramp, and boat docks open the water for boating, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing, with a recreation center, playground, walking trails, hiking, dog park, horseshoes, on-site dining, and productive birding filling the rest. Pets are welcome. Sauble Beach is the reason to be here. Seven miles of continuous natural sand along Lake Huron's freshwater coast make it the most visited freshwater beach community in Canada, and the campground entrance is a short walk from it. The water is warm by Great Lakes standards and the sunsets over open water are the town's daily event. The Bruce Peninsula runs north from here toward Tobermory, the Bruce Trail, and Bruce Peninsula National Park's grotto and turquoise water. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead for July and August.

from $40/night

O'Reilly Lake Resort

9 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 15 Tent Sites, 3 Cottages

O'Reilly Lake Resort in Mountain Grove, Ontario, offers 9 RV sites, eight cabin and cottage units, and 17 tent sites on a spring-fed lake, with 30-amp water-and-electric service and rigs accepted to 50 feet. A single 30-amp water-and-electric category joins a water park, beach, boat rentals, jumping pillow, and recreation center. Nine back-in sites carry water and electric on 30-amp, sized to 50 feet, with picnic tables. Two things to plan around: the sites carry water and electric rather than sewer, and service is 30-amp, so bring an adapter if your rig runs heavier. One consistent category means no guesswork. Eight cabins and cottages and 17 tent sites make this substantially a cabin and tent property. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, propane exchange, and firewood handle the practical side. A water park and beach anchor the summer, with boat rentals opening the lake for boating, paddle boats, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing. A jumping pillow, recreation center, sports courts, volleyball, horseshoes, walking trails, hiking, biking, mountain biking, and a playground fill the rest, with live music, picnicking, and genuinely dark skies for stargazing. The address is 1091 O'Reilly Lake Lane in the Township of Central Frontenac, where the Canadian Shield's ancient granite and the spring-fed lakes of the Frontenac Axis make classic Ontario cottage country. Frontenac Provincial Park and Bon Echo are within reach, with Kingston about an hour south. Summer is the short, intense Ontario season. Reserve well ahead for July and August.

Tiny Village Bon Echo

1 RV Site, 6 Tent Sites

Tiny Village Bon Echo in Ompah, Ontario, offers a water-and-electric pull-through RV site and six tent sites in Canadian Shield country, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 30 feet. Cabins, an outdoor pool, beach, boat ramp, kayak rentals, and on-site dining serve a glamping-focused property near Bon Echo Provincial Park. The RV site is pull-through with water and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 30 feet. Two things to plan around: the site carries water and electric rather than sewer, and the 30-foot cap rules out most modern coaches. Six tent sites and classic rental cabins round out the lodging. A general store, propane fills, restrooms, showers, portable toilets, firewood, and on-site dining handle the practical side. Three policies worth knowing: check-in runs 3pm to 9pm only, checkout is 11am, and while there is no boat docking, launching is free. An outdoor pool and beach anchor the summer, with a lake, boat ramp, boat rentals, and kayak rentals opening the water for boating, canoeing, kayaking, and swimming. A recreation center, playground, walking trails, hiking, corn hole, and a river fill the rest, with offroading nearby and genuinely dark skies for stargazing. Bon Echo Provincial Park is a short drive and is where the Canadian Shield reaches its most dramatic expression — the Mazinaw Rock cliff rises roughly 330 feet straight out of Mazinaw Lake, carrying more than 260 Indigenous pictographs on its face. Summer is the short Ontario season. Reserve well ahead, and plan arrival within the check-in window.

from $40/night

Red's Twilight on the Erie RV Resort

60 RV Sites, 4 Cabins, 2 Tent Sites

Red's Twilight on the Erie RV Resort in Macedon, New York, offers 61 full-hookup RV sites, four cabins, and two tent sites along the historic Erie Canal, with 30 and 50-amp service behind a gated entrance. Back-in, pull-through, and pull-through buddy sites carry water, sewer, and electric, with an outdoor pool, kayak rentals, and direct Erie Canal Trail access. Sixty-one sites run in back-in, pull-through, and pull-through buddy configurations — the buddy sites suiting parties traveling together — all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, with fire pits and picnic tables. Four cabins and two tent sites round out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side, and a gated entrance controls access. The canal is the recreation. The Erie Canal Trail runs directly from the resort for cycling and walking, kayak rentals put guests on the water, and a lake and pond on the property support fishing and boating. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with an arcade, playground, pavilion, and corn hole filling the grounds. Wine and beer tasting is nearby in the Finger Lakes. Pets are welcome. Macedon sits in Wayne County on the Erie Canal's western section. The 363-mile canal, built between 1817 and 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic and opened the continental interior to trade — the most ambitious engineering project of early America. The corridor now carries one of the most comprehensive canal-trail cycling networks in the Northeast, with Rochester and the Finger Lakes wine region both close. The resort runs the upstate New York season. Summer cycling and canal traffic drive demand — reserve ahead for July and August weekends.

from $55/night

Wasaga Pines Cottage & RV Resort

Wasaga Pines Cottage & RV Resort has delivered Georgian Bay cottage country experiences for more than 30 years from its beautifully maintained property in Elmvale, Ontario — situated just outside Wasaga Beach and a short drive from the sandy shores of the world's longest freshwater beach on Georgian Bay. For Ontario families who return year after year to the same well-loved campground, Wasaga Pines has the established, community-oriented atmosphere that makes loyalty entirely understandable. Two heated pools, an 18-hole mini golf course, basketball and soccer and baseball fields, horseshoe pits, a bocce court, and an outdoor fitness area provide recreation infrastructure for guests of every age. The resort's recreation centre — stocked with a pool table, ping pong, television, board games, art supplies, and sports equipment — becomes a social hub on cooler evenings and rainy days. Weekly events including karaoke nights, dances on long weekends, and organized family activities give the wasaga pines campground calendar a social structure that keeps the core of returning campers planning their next visit before the current one ends. Accommodation options include overnight and seasonal RV voyageur sites and cottage rentals, with 30-amp hookups and water access throughout. Pets are welcome. The Georgian Bay landscape surrounding Wasaga Pines connects guests to one of Ontario's most iconic cottage country environments — the blue expanse of Georgian Bay visible from the beach, the wind-shaped pines along the shore, and the warm, relatively calm bay water that makes the Wasaga Beach area one of the most visited summer destinations in the province. Wasaga Beach itself, 14 kilometers of freshwater sand backed by Georgian Bay's warm blue water, is just minutes from the resort — the longest freshwater beach in the world and a summer institution for generations of Ontario families. Collingwood and the Blue Mountain Resort, about 20 minutes east, offer a parallel recreational universe with mountain biking and hiking in summer, championship skiing in winter, and a year-round village of restaurants and shops. Penetanguishene and Discovery Harbour living history site preserve Georgian Bay's maritime heritage in well-interpreted form. Barrie, the Simcoe County hub, is 30 minutes south for urban amenities and the full range of a mid-sized Ontario city. Wasaga Pines Cottage & RV Resort operates through the Ontario camping season, with peak demand falling July through August when the beach and pools are in full summer mode. The wasaga pines resort combination of on-site recreation, Georgian Bay location, and community atmosphere fills seasonal sites years in advance and books summer weekends quickly — reach out early for any high-season stay to secure your preferred site type.

from $41/night

Cherry Hill Campground

12 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 33 Tent Sites, 4 Glamping Sites

Cherry Hill Campground in Darien Center, New York, offers 12 RV sites without hookups, a cabin, 33 tent sites, and four glamping sites directly across from Darien Lake Theme Park, with rigs accepted to 40 feet. A single no-hookup RV category joins shaded tent and cabin sites a half mile from the park entrance. Twelve sites are RV no-hookup throughout, sized to 40 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Plan accordingly — these are self-contained sites without utilities, so arrive with full water and empty tanks. One consistent category means no guesswork, and the pricing reflects what you are getting. A cabin, 33 tent sites, and four glamping sites make this predominantly a tent property. A general store, restrooms, showers, firewood, and recycling handle the practical side. Walking trails, hiking, horseshoes, volleyball, and picnicking fill the grounds, with live music and planned activities through the season. Wine and beer tasting and a golf course are nearby. Pets are welcome. The position is the entire proposition and it is a strong one. Darien Lake Theme Park and its concert amphitheater sit about a half mile from the campground on Sumner Road, with a good view of the park from the property — close enough that families can come and go through the day without paying resort parking, and close enough to hear the show. Letchworth State Park's Genesee River gorge is a short drive south, with Buffalo, Rochester, and Niagara Falls all within an hour. Summer drives demand entirely, tracking the theme park and concert calendar. Reserve well ahead for June through August and for show dates.

from $30/night